I just spent my first night all out in APW.  My guild used a variety of pull tactics. Most of them were less than graceful. They gave me and then myself and a necro some time to see if we could split non-mezzable pairs. Normally I would just go and experiment by myself, but I can't in this case so I'm turning to you folks. Do you have any suggestions/techniques for splitting (to pull single or have them split apart enough for a tank to tag) unmezzable linked pairs?

Kivik thanks for your awesome response. I've had great fun and success doubling up with a second monk for pulls in places like RI and I love that synergy. I am, however, the only monk raiding with my guild at this time. I got a few pulls in with a necro guildy, but I don't think I explained the method well enough (i.e. much necro splatter resulted).  I've tried a few of my old splitting  tricks from EQ1 to no avail. There's no way I can live pull 4 at once - if that trick even works anymore.  Do you have any ideas for the lone monk pulling?

Spitting in this fashion can be doe with any 2 toons provided they are willing to die or successfully fd.  In fact, it is sometimes useful to have a tank or necro tag the mobs if a monk would not survive the initial pull.

You  can of course also split by continually using a ranged attack and FD, but this takes time and is usually not as efficient.

Monks are no defo the kings of pulling on raids. Most stuff is already here, but ill elaborate some.

Two Monks work best, Although it is more than feasible to work with just 1 Monk mostly because if it goes wrong you can get each other out of trouble if you should die in an ugly spot. You need to work closely with you buddy Monk puller and macro up FD with a tell to the fellow Monk so you know when one another is using FD !,  Its not so good to try this with a Necro because their FD is Very unreliable.!

Equip a Parry Sword and any items which add HP, Dodge, Parry, constitution and FD, Buffed over 8k HP is pretty good but 9K plus is better as it means you can normally survive a couple of Hits from some of the tougher Mobs without dropping.

Center is your Friend, I have made my way to recover a raid from Vicus through a fully spawned Dungeon, Using Center alone ! and its also The important spell to use when pulling.

For mezable trash pull 2 or more mobs, one Monk tags whilst using center, the other Monk stands by closest to the raid party, all agro is on the centered Monk, as the mobs run by cast Nerve strike, then FD, after puller Monk uses FD as well all mobs return to spawn point aside for the nerve striked mob. MT tags then raid kills.

Caster Mobs even singles can be a bugger as they will stand at range and pop of nukes one after the other, so use alcoves, walls, pillers, corners or any features which will  hide you from the line of sight, this will bring the caster mob to the raid.

Another technique is for 1 Monk to center and tag a group whist the 2nd Monk tags one of the group and pulls it far away towards the raid. Centered Monk uses FD when pulling monk is far enough away.

A 3rd option required you to run the mobs until they give up the chance and return to their spawn point, during this stage a single can be pulled although this is a little dirty, and not something we like to use.

Hope this helps

There are mobs that you could have split up to that point -- but there were other ways to pull them.  There are mobs you have to split after that.  Absent a second monk a Necro can help you split.   Or you can split yourself if you've got a really long way to pull.  Single pulling to split usually requires multiple fds and a long way to run.   

Two monks is far and away the easiest.

I would suggest that for the couple of times you could have split up to that point that you have your guild try and let you split them for practice.